{"id":27379,"date":"2018-01-13T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27379"},"modified":"2018-01-13T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:59:19","slug":"presidents-are-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27379","title":{"rendered":"Presidents should be better than this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I consider myself a modern fellow. I believe I am adequately liberated from the hang-ups that bedeviled my parents and grandparents.<\/p>\n

However, I remain kind of stodgy in one respect. I expect the leader of my country to be the best we have to offer. I expect the president of the United States to be relatively free of the bad habits that afflict many of the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Take for example the latest offering from Donald John Trump. He sat in the White House conducting a serious meeting on immigration reform. He was talking to several key lawmakers: six Republicans and a Democrat. The discussion turned to special protections offered to immigrants from Third World countries.<\/p>\n

Then the president blurted out his now-infamous “sh**thole” comment about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and Africa.<\/p>\n

His supporters say he’s speaking for millions of Americans. They say he is using language many of the rest of us use.<\/p>\n

I get that. I have been known to pepper my language with terms similar to what the president used. However, there’s a big difference.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is the president; I am not. He is the one who talks about high-minded public policy with other government officials; I talk to my friends and family members. He represents the greatest nation on Earth; I represent only myself.<\/p>\n

I want the president to be better than what he continues to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

I want him to speak with some semblance of dignity and decorum. He keeps disappointing many of his fellow Americans. We deserve<\/em> better than what we’re getting from our head of state.<\/p>\n\n

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I consider myself a modern fellow. I believe I am adequately liberated from the hang-ups that bedeviled my parents and grandparents. However, I remain kind of stodgy in one respect. I expect the leader of my country to be the best we have to offer. I expect the president of the United States to be … Continue reading Presidents should be better than this<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7526,3688,5246],"class_list":["post-27379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-head-of-state","tag-potus","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27381,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions\/27381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}